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Squidward J. Q. Tentacles (born October 9) is one of the ten main characters of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. He is SpongeBob and Patrick's grumpy neighbor and the former's coworker at the Krusty Krab who lives in an Easter Island moai head. He is a mostly unpleasant artist and musician, and his favorite hobbies are painting self-portraits and playing the clarinet.
Even though Squidward's name contains the word "squid," he is an octopus, not a squid, as confirmed in many interviews and episodes. He has the traits of an octopus—a round bulbous head and rectangular pupils—while a squid has a long triangular head and circular eyes, unlike Squidward. However, his limbs are depicted as having suction cups only at the ends, which are rather wide; these are traits that are found in squids instead of octopi. Squids have ten limbs, many more than Squidward. The series' animators believed that giving him eight limbs would be too burdensome and difficult to animate, which is why he is usually depicted with six limbs. Notable exceptions are brief scenes in "Naughty Nautical Neighbors" and "Sold!," in which he has a full set of eight legs. In "Feral Friends," his exact species is identified: a giant Pacific octopus.
Squidward J. Q. Tentacles was born to Jeff Tentacles and his wife. According to the SpongeBob SquarePants Annual 2014 book published by the Egmont Group, Squidward's birthday is on October 9.
His father raised him right and loved him very much, as Squidward mentions in "Krab Borg." During his childhood, he always had to sit near the garbage cans at lunch, as he wasn't known as a friend by many people. As a teenager, he was rivals with his band classmate Squilliam Fancyson.
As a child, he went to Kamp Koral. There, he met a sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants, a starfish named Patrick Star, and a squirrel wearing an aquatic suit named Sandy Cheeks. He also met the camp director, Eugene H. Krabs, and the scoutmaster, Mrs. Puff. A year later, he became the camp's troop leader, becoming a figure of authority towards his friends.
Later, Squidward was enrolled in the Bikini Bottom School. He did not go to college after graduating.
One day, he became part of the Krusty Krab along with Jim. On the day Jim quit, Squidward spoke with him and instantly lost his long blond hair, much to his dismay. Later, at an unknown point of his life, he would become the neighbor of his former camp mates SpongeBob and Patrick. Becoming neighbors with SpongeBob and Patrick became a source of stress for Squidward on many occasions, often being annoyed or inadvertently hurt by them. For example, in "Frankendoodle," SpongeBob innocently creates DoodleBob to play a prank on Squidward. This backfires when the drawing beats Squidward up instead.
At one point, Squidward tried to move out of his house out of intolerance for his neighbors, but the real estate agent refused to sell his home on account of SpongeBob and Patrick stealing his identity and deceiving her.
Squidward is a turquoise (specifically PMS 333) colored octopus with purple suction cups at the end of his tentacles. As an octopus, Squidward has eight limbs in total. Two of his tentacles are used as arms, as well as six composing legs always having one tucked behind the two in front, which also tend to make the shape of a plus sign when he stands in place. Whenever he walks, his suction cups stick to the floor, meaning that he walks with a distinct squelching noise. Squidward has a large cranium with eight spots on the top of it. He also has a nasal voice, a skinny body, a big droopy nose, a wide mouth, and yellow eyes with rectangular maroon irises. When he laughs, his nose appears to deflate and inflate repeatedly (in earlier episodes, this was accompanied by a sound effect.) He wears a brown shirt.
Squidward is usually bald, but his natural hair color is blond. In the episode "The Original Fry Cook," it is shown that Squidward had long blond hair when he was young, but he lost it all after Jim left the Krusty Krab. His blond hair is also seen in the ending of "Squidward's Sick Daze." This is also the second appearance of handsome Squidward.
His color has changed slightly throughout the series. While he is shown to be PMS 332 in earlier episodes (most noticeable in "Help Wanted"), he changes to PMS 333 in later episodes.
In the episode "Sandy's Rocket," Squidward is shown to be wearing an old version of his nightwear. It is pink with magenta-colored flowers on it. In newer episodes such as "Sentimental Sponge," Squidward is seen wearing his real nightgown. In this episode, he refers to it as a "nightshirt." It is a light purple nightgown that comes with a matching nightcap. It is the third version of his nightwear. The second version appears in "Employee of the Month" and "Funny Pants."
Squidward's toenails appear in the episodes "House Fancy," "Giant Squidward," and "Mermaid Pants."
It’s shown in the episode "Bulletin Board" that Squidward has a tattoo of a red rose on his right arm.
Squidward is considered rude, sassy, introverted, unhappy, stubborn, snobby, grumpy, bad-tempered, egotistical, miserable, sarcastic, apathetic, pessimistic, hypocritical, and sometimes sadistic, but this can be explained by his work ethic. He views the world in such a negative light that he is rarely seen greeting anyone with a smile. He hates his job at the Krusty Krab and is often seen sleeping or reading on the job instead of working as he is continually lazy on the job. Despite his bad temper, he is still one of the most intelligent and educated characters. He has a cynical attitude, a grandiose sense of self, and sees others as uncivilized morons while failing to accept his shortcomings. He often believes that Patrick and SpongeBob are morons due to their annoying behavior. Squidward sees himself as misunderstood and unappreciated, blaming society for his failures. Often times his anger happens due to SpongeBob and Patrick annoying him even though they don't see how annoying they are. He is often a jerk due to this, though Squilliam is often even more of one than Squidward is.
He is annoyingly pretentious in his pursuit of fame and is either unwilling or unable to spot talent and creativity, even belittling it. He lauds "cultivated taste" and accepted standards. In the episode "Artist Unknown," he insists that his pupil SpongeBob "show his method," even when it is painfully clear that SpongeBob has artistic genius. Furthermore, Squidward takes credit for creating the David statue when SpongeBob is the actual creator. His motive was to impress the art appraiser. In the episode "Bubblestand," he belittles SpongeBob's bubble blowing.
Squidward is also jealous of those who are more artistic or talented than he is, for example, Incidental 41, Patrick Star, Mr. Krabs, Squilliam Fancyson, and even the puppet Mini Squidward which SpongeBob created. In "Slimy Dancing," Squidward cheats during the dance show by hiding in SpongeBob's body and using the latter's physical identity and talents to win the trophy. He attempts to steal the dance trophy after being criticized by the judges, only to be thrown out by the security. In "Professor Squidward," Squidward impersonates Squilliam Fancyson while exercising his power as a music teacher, preceding his arrest by the police. In "Sold!," after knowing that SpongeBob and Patrick think Nick Fishkins has bought their homes, Squidward lies that a 14-member family has moved into SpongeBob's pineapple and an 8-member rock band with several instruments has moved into Patrick's rock. SpongeBob and Patrick would both fall for this lie until they find out that they still own their houses. When SpongeBob and Patrick come to their old houses, he puts on outfits to match the characters that he made up.
Squidward is generally portrayed as an overall failure. His musical skills with the clarinet are generally portrayed as sub-par, from mediocre to excruciatingly horrible. In "Sweet and Sour Squid," Squidward's disastrous clarinet playing creates a mass noise disturbance throughout the town, prompting the authorities' arrival. However, there have been numerous exceptions - such as in "Bubblestand" and "Hello Bikini Bottom!" - where he plays nicely. At the end of "Christmas Who?," he manages to play great with the wooden clarinet SpongeBob carved for him. In "That's No Lady," he manages to play a nice tune to woo "Patricia”. who he doesn’t know that it is Patrick in disguise until the end of the episode. Also, in "Best Day Ever," he even has a concert where he plays beautifully and receives thunderous applause from the audience. SpongeBob was even on the VIP list for it. It seems that he is capable of playing the clarinet very well by providing a full effort. He plays well enough in "Hello Bikini Bottom!" for a musical manager to offer him and SpongeBob a job. He also - if the player plays well - plays well in the Rock Bottom mini-game in Lights, Camera, Pants!, along with Beats Me. He is also first-chair in the Bikini Bottom Orchestra.
He often lets this success go to his head. In "Skill Crane," Squidward's final success in winning from the toy claw machine goes to his head and influences him to use a construction crane; his out-of-control usage of said crane leads to the demolition of the future site of a mall, and eventually the Krusty Krab. In "Snowball Effect" after pelting SpongeBob and Patrick with snowballs, he takes the snowball fight too far and builds a massive fort and throws a bunch of snowballs, believing he was dominating the snowball fight.
His overall artistic style is shown to be abstract and overly sophisticated, and his works are commonly panned by his audiences. His failure is shown to be due to his bad taste and arrogance, rather than a genuine lack of talent as he thinks he is a good artist. The entirety of his art centers on himself, apparently holding his very being to be an artistic wonder and never even considers depicting anything else. In the episode "One Krabs Trash," Squidward is shown bringing flowers to a gravestone reading "Here Lies Squidward's Hopes and Dreams", with Mr. Krab's responding "What A Baby".
Squidward has a reputation of being on the receiving end of injuries and bad luck as part of his miserable life. He has suffered many health problems, both physical and mental. His bad luck frequently lands him in the hospital, covered in bandages, or randomly attacked by characters, resulting in excruciating pain. Most of his bad luck serves as karma for his bad attitude, though a fair amount of it is brought about unnaturally even when he is minding his own business.
The first episode to focus on Squidward's low health is "Jellyfishing." After getting a jellyfish caught in his mouth from laughing too hard and not paying attention to the road while riding his bike, he falls down a cliff and is severely injured. His whole body is covered in bandages the next day and he has to use a motorized wheelchair. The bandages covering his whole body means he cannot talk. His torment continues through Patrick blowing hot soup in his face and lodging a jellyfish net through Squidward's bandaged tentacle, adding insult to injury. At the end of the episode, the bandages break off, which seems to have cured him, but the Queen Jellyfish from earlier floats above his head, implying a worse injury will come.
In "I Was a Teenage Gary," Squidward accidentally gets injected with the snail plasma while swarming through the junk pile in his house created by Snail-SpongeBob. He is turned into a snail at the end as he’s shown singing on the fence with Gary and Snail-SpongeBob.
Squidward has also displayed several mental health problems in addition to being extremely miserable and having terrible luck. In "Squid's Day Off," while Squidward has taken a day off from work, he compulsively checks up on SpongeBob at the Krusty Krab every minute while he is the only one watching the restaurant as Mr. Krabs is in the hospital; Squidward fears that SpongeBob will do something drastic like burn the place down while he is unsupervised. Later in the episode, Squidward experiences many hallucinations of SpongeBob asking him "Have you finished those errands?" and also hallucinates many items surrounding him to be SpongeBob. Many throwaway lines also suggest Squidward to have some degree of suicidality: In "Band Geeks," when his band spits their drumsticks at him and causes him to be pinned to the wall, Squidward says "Too bad that didn't kill me." In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV," while Patrick is playing with a shrunken version of Squidward, Squidward looks down at the road and wonders if the height he is at is enough to kill himself. In "Are You Happy Now?," Squidward is in a depressed state self-pities over his inability to feel happy and gets out a rope, implying he will use it to hang himself, only for it to turn out he just wanted to look at his pet scallop hung in a cage.
Squidward is revealed to have an addiction to Krabby Patties in "Just One Bite," but he only pretended to hate them because he was embarrassed of SpongeBob finding out he likes them. His obsession with the burgers is so extreme to the point where he even eats the one he buried that's covered in sand, and resorts to eating a half-eaten patty thrown away in the garbage before SpongeBob cremates it. Squidward's withdrawal from Krabby Patties causes him to have a dream that night about marrying one and even having an octopus-burger hybrid child with it. Once Squidward confesses to SpongeBob that he loves Krabby Patties, Squidward impulsively eats as many of them in the patty vault to his heart's content, but this causes him to bloat severely with the burgers going to his thighs. As a final result, Squidward's body blows up, leaving only his head intact, which is sent to an ambulance.
In "The Camping Episode," after attracting a sea bear to prove SpongeBob and Patrick wrong about their existence, Squidward gets mauled several times by the bear and is left with many broken bones and has to limp to walk meaning that Squidward was wrong.
Squidward works as the cashier at the Krusty Krab, along with his co-worker, SpongeBob SquarePants. He not only hates his duties but the Krusty Krab itself, and he performs his job rather poorly and with a lack of enthusiasm. He also frequently behaves rudely to the customers. He has often expressed a desire to be fired or simply quit, but never makes good on it. While he initially only seems to work there because he needs the money, he seems to only be there out of pure laziness of getting a different job as the series progresses.
In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Squidward is the manager of the Krusty Krab 2 for six days, although due to Plankton's invasion of Bikini Bottom, the new restaurant is not in service during this time. It is also shown here that Squidward cares about what happens to the Krusty Krab and the Krabby Patty formula when he discovers Plankton selling Krabby Patties and threatens to report him to King Neptune. In "Selling Out," Squidward works as the waiter for Krabby O'Monday's. He was forced to maintain a false state of happiness, or else face "Human Resources," a thug in the back of the building.
In The Patrick Star Show, he is a paperboy who's trying to collect overdue payment from the Star family. In Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years, Squidward is a junior counselor for SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy.
Squidward has also been:
•The "art department," filmmaker, and creator of the "real" Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Movie's designing technology. -"Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture"
•The replacement fry cook at the Krusty Krab - various episodes
Stephen Hillenburg first became fascinated with the ocean and began developing his artistic abilities as a child. During college, he majored in marine biology and minored in art. After graduating in 1984, he joined the Ocean Institute, an ocean education organization, where he had the idea to create a comic book titled The Intertidal Zone, which led to the creation of SpongeBob SquarePants. In 1987, Hillenburg left the Institute to pursue a career in animation.
Several years after studying experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, Hillenburg met Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, at an animation festival. Murray offered Hillenburg a job as a director of the series. Martin Olson, one of the writers for Rocko's Modern Life, read The Intertidal Zone and encouraged Hillenburg to create a television series with a similar concept. At that point, Hillenburg had not considered creating his own series, but soon realized that this was his chance.
Hillenburg used some character designs from his comic book. He designed "SpongeBob's grumpy next-door neighbor" like an octopus because of the species' large head; octopuses, he said, "have such a large bulbous head and Squidward thinks he's an intellectual so of course, he's gonna have a large bulbous head." Hillenburg drew Squidward with six tentacles because "it was just simpler for animation to draw him with six legs instead of eight." Show writer and storyboard artist Vincent Waller said:
Hillenburg thought of making jokes with Squidward ejecting ink but retired it because, according to him, "it always looks like he's pooping his pants." However, it occurs in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and the episodes "Giant Squidward," "Mutiny on the Krusty," and "Ink Lemonade."
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob is the character Squidward interacts with the most and is also the one he hates more than the rest, often trying to avoid him at all costs. The main reason for his massive hate for his existence is because SpongeBob can be extremely annoying towards Squidward, but SpongeBob is obilvious of this, and thus continues to irritate him. It was revealed in "Truth or Square," that SpongeBob's pineapple house landed on Squidward's old garden and when SpongeBob moved in, Squidward started to resent him even though SpongeBob didn't do anything to make Squidward hate him. Squidward and SpongeBob are opposites, which seems to be the reason why Squidward hates him at times when he has not done anything bad to him. Their relationship is somewhat complicated. While SpongeBob sees Squidward as one of his best friends, this is mostly one-sided, although Squidward occasionally shows sympathy towards him; this is seen in episodes such as "Pizza Delivery," "Dying For Pie" and "Christmas Who?." Squidward also admires SpongeBob's selfless bravery against the Flying Dutchman in "Born Again Krabs." Squidward has also teamed up with SpongeBob and helped him on a few occasions, such as in "Krab Borg" and "Squid on Strike." Later, in "SpongeBob You're Fired," Squidward fights off four crazed restaurant owners to rescue SpongeBob and later admits that as much he hates him, he hates the smell of burnt Krabby Patties more before giving him a heartfelt plea to return to the being the fry cook at the Krusty Krab. In the episode "SB-129," Squidward says that he misses everything, including SpongeBob. In "Squidville," Squidward hears a reefblower and thinks it is SpongeBob, but is disappointed to find out that it isn't. He also admits that he likes SpongeBob in "Graveyard Shift," "Fools in April," and in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. Sometimes, he needs SpongeBob's help, as shown in "Skill Crane," "Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Sponge-Cano!" where he desperately tells SpongeBob how grateful he was so SpongeBob could save him from falling in the volcano. He occasionally gets along well with him and plays with him in episodes such as "Breath of Fresh Squidward" and "Slide Whistle Stooges." Although the relationship between the two varies, Squidward sees SpongeBob as a nuisance and can’t stand what SpongeBob does, as Squidward wants to get rid of SpongeBob (get him away from his house) at any cost just to have peace and quiet but doesn’t want to harm him. Despite Squidward's hate of SpongeBob beginning to worsen in later episodes, He still likes Squidward and sympathetically wants to stay by his side, much to his chagrin.
Mr. Krabs
Squidward hates Mr. Krabs and has little tolerance for him. Unlike SpongeBob, He is much more down of his greedy and cheap nature. He also thinks very lowly of Squidward and gets tired of his lazy tendencies and often frames him for mishaps, though he does see him as a valued employee on occasion. There, have been many times where Squidward angrily berated Mr. Krabs. In "Born Again Krabs," he furiously chastises Mr. Krabs for selling SpongeBob's soul for pocket change. In "Clams" he gets mad at Krabs for taking them on a fishing trip and berates him for making them stay on the boat all over a dollar. He also gets outraged when Mr. Krabs blames something on him, like when Squidward got mad and furiously quit his job because Mr. Krabs angrily accused him of stealing his first dime in "Can You Spare a Dime?." However, the two do sometimes get along and Squidward has been working at the Krusty Krab for a long time and does sometimes respect and listen to Mr. Krabs' authority, so the two have developed a somewhat decent relationship. However, their relationship has taken a turn for the worst as the series progressed, with Mr. Krabs becoming greedier and more immoral, and Squidward becoming angrier and grouchier.
Patrick Star
Throughout the series, Squidward is shown to have a considerable dislike towards Patrick along with SpongeBob. As with Mr. Krabs, this hatred overall seems to have taken a turn for the worse in later seasons. In "Restraining SpongeBob," Squidward is very annoyed with Patrick when he would follow him around, ask stupid questions and use his clarinet to clean the toilet. Their relationship, in general, is awkward; unlike SpongeBob, Patrick notices Squidward's malice more often and tends to contradict him more. Squidward in return is also ruder and more disrespectful to Patrick than to SpongeBob. The two have even fought each other in some episodes due to their differences. However, Squidward sometimes hints he can tolerate Patrick more than SpongeBob. He has helped him to act like an adult in "Squidward's School for Grown-Ups" and "Pat Hearts Squid." While Squidward holds a massive hatred towards Patrick, he didn't seem to mind him before SpongeBob's arrival to their neighborhood revealing he could have learned these tendencies from SpongeBob. As shown in the TV special "Truth or Square," Squidward lived a happy life in Bikini Bottom, and even enjoyed his job at the Krusty Krab, only turning bitter and frustrated after SpongeBob moved. Additionally, in "No Hat for Pat," he wishes Patrick was SpongeBob before he tries to push him off the platform into an urchin bucket, hinting that even though he dislikes Patrick a lot, he dislikes SpongeBob far more. In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors," he befriends him, because he saved his life, but quickly ditches him later. He also stops Mr. Krabs from conning him in "Patrick's Coupon." He also tries to save him in "Pineapple RV" and "Mustard O' Mine." "Squisery" has Squidward and Patrick becoming close friends after getting lost in the woods together.
•In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," Squidward says "Ah, Make-Out Reef... good times, good times...," meaning he had been there when he was younger with a love interest.
•In "That's No Lady," Squidward and Mr. Krabs fall for Patrick, who was posing as a woman named Patricia because Patrick thought someone was trying to force him to leave Bikini Bottom.
•In "Love That Squid," Squidward makes a date with another octopus named "Squilvia."
•In "The Flower Plot," Squidward falls in love with the shopkeeper, Petunia, only to discover that she was just a robot powered by Plankton during yet another one of his schemes to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula.
Squidward J. Q. Tentacles[ 5 ] (/ ˈskwɪd.wərd /, [ 6 ] / ˈskwɛd.wərd /) is a fictional character voiced by actor Rodger Bumpass in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, produced by Nickelodeon. Squidward was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. He first appeared on television ...
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